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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Behold, another super-cool gadget from Google. It’s called Gapminder World, and it ...

Swedish physician and statistician Hans Rosling insisted that facts must be used to guide debates over public policy. This stance is surprisingly rare since most "serious" politicians and pundits make ...

As you may have noticed from previous issues of this newsletter, I’m a big fan of Flash content. Of course, I need to qualify that with “when used intelligently” (those Web sites with big Flash intros ...

Today Google made two pretty big acquisition announcements on their official blog. Marissa Mayer tells us they acquired Gapminder's Trendalyzer software-- see it in action on the "Gapminder World" ...

Gapminder is a dynamic statistics visualization tool that allows you to cross-reference an impressive amount of data provided by the World Bank and UNDP at your leisure, see their evolution over long ...